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J. PRANKEL,

KNIT JACKET.

No. 325,525. Patented Sept. 1, 1885.

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KNIT JACKET.

EQPECJIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,525, dated September 1, 1885. Application filed June 1, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Jackets, of which the-following is a spccification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in knit jackets of that description com monly called Cardigan jackets.

The jacket is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a front view of the jacket. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a sleeve. Fig. 3 is an inside view of one breast of the jacket. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the jacket on the line at m, Fig. 1.

The jacketshownin the drawings is singlebreasted, and is made, preferably, of wool yarn knit by a machine. The back A and the front B (that is, the two breasts together comprising the front) are knit at the same time and in one piece without side seams. The shoulders C are square or straight across from the seam (Z of one sleeve to the seam d of the other sleeve, and the straight shoulderseam e, uniting each breast-front B with the back A, is in the present instance the only scam in the body part of the garment. The shoulderseam e is not sewed, but is crocheted, and is alike inside and outside. The sleeves F are united to the body by a crocheted seam, d, which is alike inside and outside. The sleeves have a figured cuff, g. This figured cuff is composed of meshes which run in directions differ ing from those composing the sleeve. The cuff thereby is both ornamental and elastic. A re-cnforce, h, is provided at the elbow part of the sleeve. This is shown plainly in Fig. 2, where the greater thickness of the reenforced part is seen. The re-enforce may be made by using double the number of yarns elsewhere employed in the sleeve, or may be made simply by the addition of a single yarn. The sleeve, being thus re-enforccd at the elbow, will stand greater wear.

At the bottom of the garment, at one or both fronts, are kitted two pockets, one upon the inside and one upon the outside. In the present instance four pockets are shown on the garment. As seen in Figs. 1 and 4, the

outside pockets, 1?, are nearer the crocheted border 1 than the inside pockets, k, and both pockets have the same width. The position of the pocket on the inside with respect to the pocket i on the outside is that one pocket half overlaps the other, as shown in Fig. 4. This arrangement has advantages in the knitting of the pockets to the garment-front, and also in that the bulkiness which would be causedif the two pockets were exactly over or opposite each other is in large part avoided, while both pockets have position at the front, and neither of them is too much at the side, as would be the case if the pockets did not partially overlap each other. I

Each breast-front has a crocheted border, Z, which is knit (not sewed) to the edge of the jacket, and the sameis alike on both sides. This border extends up to the back and around the neck,and is without facing of any kind, the outside being exactly like the inside, which will be seen by comparing Figs. 1 and 3, which show opposite sides. Both crocheted borders are provided with button-holes n, and one border is provided with a removable set of buttons, 19. The buttons have eye-shanks, and are retained by an open ring, 1), put through the eye of the shank. The object of this is to provide for reversing the garment, so as to wear either side out. As the buttons, with the fastening-rings, may be removed from the outer side of one border edge and attached to the inner side ofthe other by simply pushing the shank through the knit meshes, it will be seen that either side of the jacket may be worn outermost and still have the button-holes on their proper sides. This mode of attaching buttons I am awareis not new, and I do not claim the same; but, as far as I am aware, it is new to provide a single-breasted knit jacket with buttonholes on each of the two border edges of the front and to provide detachable buttons on one of said border edges for the purpose specified.

The figured cuff g may be dispensed with, and in lieu thereof the jacket may be made with a cuff of the ordinary kind, called the spring-cuff, and the same is true also of the re-enforce at the elbow.

While a single-breasted jacket is shown in the drawings, I contemplate using certain features hereinbefore described on a doublebreasted jacket, which it is obvious may readily be done.

The body part of the jacket may be made in three piecesnamely, the back A and the two fronts or breasts B-and when so made each vertical edge of the back will have one of the fronts or breasts B attached by a crocheted seam that will have the same appearance inside and outside.

I contemplate using certain features hereinbefore describedthat is to say, in a reversible Cardigan jacket the crocheted seams alike inside and outside, the re enforced elbow h, the bottom outside and inside pockets, 73 7c, and the crocheted border Z, alike on both sides and knit to the front edges,without the square shoulder a. In doing this the shoulders, instead of square, may be sloped from the neck to the sleeve-seams d.

It will be seen from the foregoing that every provision is made for adapting the jacket to Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States l. A knit jacket having at the bottom a pocket, i, upon the outside and a pocket, is,

upon the inside, one of said pockets half overlapping the other, and both pockets knit to J AOOB FRANKEL.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. MORRIS,

bro. '1. MADDOX. 

